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... br> Beautiful ferry ride back to Vancouver - it is amazing how much nicer such things are when the sun is shining.

Checked back in to the Club Intrawest and then Carolyn, Lindsay, Cathy and I went to 'The Banana Leaf' for a 9 course 'tasting menu' of Malaysian food. I ate mussels there for the first time in my entire life. Peer pressure!! ...

... two nights etc is the Le Soleil. We have a gorgeous suite (upgraded!) and our now off out exploring even though it's really midnight in the UK. Went for a wander around Canada Place which was built for an Expo in 1986. People call it a poor man's Sydney Opera house but it isn't trying to be that at all. It is an ideal landmark down by The Waterfront. We saw some Float Planes coming into land on the sea which was weird to watch ...

... and metal 450 feet across and 230 feet above the Capilano River! What was their problem?! There was also a great woodland boardwalk through the trees and even though we only had a few hours we sure made the most of our time there. We had a very important date back at the Woodwards - champagne drinking to celebrate the final sale of the Bonnett family home of 30 years. We thought our partial moving out of Chez Wombles was bad enough after 16 years but Larry and Susan, and ...

... and Mother's Day to Capilano Suspension Bridge Park - so this was our treat for today. The Bridge is 137m long and 70m high and been wobbling since 1889! The park was the vision of the early pioneers, thus there is a strong sense of Indian history with Totem poles, canoes and log cabins. Being school holidays it was very crowded, but the queues seemed to move pretty quickly. Once over the Capilano Bridge ...

... of sweet italian sausages, and they were very tasty. The hop-on hop-off bus driver highly recommended a visit and said you could easily spend a day there. We couldn't manage that but it was worth a visit. After that we made our way back into the city and booked our transport to Victoria on Vancouver Island before heading back out to Burnaby.